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Joe McMullin, Athol Kemball, Tim Cornwell - NRAO/Socorro

The sixth public release of AIPS++ (version 1.7) was available July 2002. AIPS++ is available on CDROM for Red Hat 7.* and Sun Solaris 2.8, and will be shipped to users or institutions on request. Please direct e-mail requests for the package to aips2-request@nrao.edu, and include a complete mailing address. The v1.7 CDROM ISO images are also available for download at several high-bandwidth sites within the AIPS++ consortium, as described on the AIPS++ web page at http://aips2.nrao.edu. This web site can also be consulted for general information on AIPS++.

Release v1.7 contains new features in a range of different areas within the package. These new scientific capabilities are fully described in the release notes for v1.7, which are available at (http://aips2.aoc.nrao.edu/docs/project/releasenotes17/releasenotes17.html).

New users of AIPS++ are encouraged to submit any defects or comments on the package using our GUI-based defect submission tool, bug(), which can be invoked at the AIPS++ command-line. We will provide feedback on any defects which are submitted to the project and we welcome comments from the user community.

Effective November 1, Joe McMullin became the NRAO AIPS++ Project Manager and Kumar Golap became the AIPS++ Deputy Project Manager, subject to confirmation by the AIPS++ Executive Committee. Athol Kemball is stepping down to join the NRAO Basic Research staff in order to focus on his science interests. We would like to thank Athol for his outstanding contributions to the AIPS++ Project both technically and managerially. His tireless efforts on behalf of the AIPS++ project have been an inspiration to all project members. His technical expertise will be sorely missed, as will his commitment to sound and effective software project management.

Featured science highlight:

This is a new feature which will highlight a journal article which has made use of AIPS++ for analysis.

astro-ph/0212154

PKS B1400-33: an unusual radio relic in a poor cluster

R. Subrahmanyan, A. J. Beasley, W. M. Goss, K. Golap, R. W. Hunstead